jimmy-dean

Oof those are all dense reads for a new comer... For a first dip into the waters I usually suggest Introduction to Statistical Learning. Then from there move into PRML or ESL. Were you first introduced to core ML through Bishop? +1 for a solid reading list.

Not effectively. From what I've read, JS lacks SIMD support which makes Numpy-like vectorizations unachievable. Would be nice though...

This is something I was introduced to when learning Rust. I've grown to like it as I now read declarations such as:

let x: int32 ...

as "let x be a 32 bit integer ...".